The relationship between the entrepreneurial personality and the Big Five personality traits

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-63

  Leutner, Franziska ^a   Ahmetoglu, Gorkan ^b   Akhtar, Reece ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Entrepreneurial success; Entrepreneurship; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894056901     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.042     Document Type: Article

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